Immigration Issues in Depth 2025

Product Type: Course

Session 1

Format

Courses - In-Person

Start Date & Time

2025-12-05 9:00 AM

End Date & Time

2025-12-05 4:00 PM

Location

Vancouver location TBA

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Session 2

Format

Courses - Webinar

Start Date & Time

2025-12-05 9:00 AM

End Date & Time

2025-12-05 4:00 PM

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Session 3

Format

Courses - Rebroadcast

Start Date & Time

2026-03-06

End Date & Time

2026-03-06

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Recent changes and new developments that impact your immigration practice

Friday, December 5, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Vancouver location TBA
or attend via webinar

—Rebroadcasts—
On the rebroadcast date, you will have until midnight of that rebroadcast date to access the course. Please note that technical support will be available during regular CLEBC business hours.

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Friday, March 6, 2026

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Who should attend: Lawyers practicing immigration law. This course may also be of interest to lawyers practicing criminal law and lawyers practicing administrative law.

Learning level: Intermediate/Advanced

Immigration is always topical and the subject of constant political scrutiny and review.

As a result, there are frequent changes to the law, policy, and practice that demand continuous learning by immigration practitioners like you.

Join us for our annual in-depth discussions of the most significant developments in immigration law, policy, and practice over the past year, and look ahead with your colleagues to some of the critical emerging issues.

Practical and relevant, this course will provide you with current ideas and strategies to navigate the labyrinth of laws, policies, procedures, and law firm management for litigators involved in the ever-evolving practice of immigration law.

Join us and be confident in your command of immigration law.

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 6 hours (this course will contain a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management)

Course Chairs
Brett J. Nash — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Will Tao — Heron Law Offices, Burnaby

Pricing	EARLY BIRD Register by Nov. 7/25	Regular Price After Nov. 7/25
In-person*	$659	$739
In-person Articled Student*	$419	$419
Webinar	$559	$639
Webinar Articled Student	$319	$319

Jump Start 2026	EARLY BIRD Register by Feb. 2/26	Regular Price After Feb. 2/26
Rebroadcast	$509	$579
Rebroadcast Articled Student	$289	$289

*Please note: The in-person session is dependent on a minimum number of registrants and may not be confirmed until 4 weeks before the course date.

Are you a member of the Indigenous legal community (lawyer/Articled Student/legal support staff/paralegal) or a non-lawyer Indigenous community member?
We value your contributions and encourage your participation in all of our programs. To increase accessibility, we offer a 50% discount* to all Indigenous lawyers/Articled Students/legal support staff/paralegals and a limited number of free online registrations to non-lawyer Indigenous community members. (*discount applies to Regular prices, not Early Bird prices). Please contact Customer Service to find out more.

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Registration includes an electronic copy of the reference materials and lunch for in-person registration.

CLEBC Program Lawyer*
Nadia Myerthall
nmyerthall@cle.bc.ca
*non-practising

Course Chairs
Brett J. Nash — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Will Tao — Heron Law Offices, Burnaby

About the Course Chairs
Brett Nash is counsel with the Department of Justice Canada in Vancouver and practices primarily in the area of immigration and refugee law.

Brett has appeared in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal on a wide range of immigration and refugee issues. Prior to focusing on immigration matters, Brett was counsel on Aboriginal rights and title claims in the Aboriginal Law Section, and before joining the Department of Justice, he had a general litigation practice. Brett holds a Master of Laws degree focusing on constitutional and statutory interpretation and international law.

Will Tao is founder/counsel at Heron Law Offices, an Immigration, Refugee, Citizenship, Public and Administrative law firm based in Burnaby.

He received his JD from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Will is an active member of the Canadian Immigration Bar, served as past co-chair of the Anti-Racism Committee, and is an award-winning blogger and frequent policy analyst/media contributor. Will is currently taking his LLM at the Allard/UBC Faculty of Law where he is focusing on studying the automated administrative state. Most recently, he has been involved in consultations including with the Federal Court on their recent use of AI Directive and with the Treasury Board Secretariat on their Algorithmic Impact Assessment. He is the co-founder of a civil society organization called AIMICI that explores the use of artificial intelligence technologies in immigration systems in Canada and globally.

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